Don't let your motor control design skills get rusty

An area of expertise that embedded developers can’t afford to let
get rusty or out of date is anything to do with motor control. This is
because a significant portion of the applications in any embedded market
segment – industrial, automotive and aerospace - involves developing the
algorithms and code to make motors work efficiently.

Nor are embedded apps in consumer electronics immune, especially with
the increased concern about the power efficient operation of the many
electric motors in our homes. Even ARM/Atom-based mobile smartphones
and tablet computers with their MEMS-based sensors, motor controllers and motion detectors also have embedded
MCUs to offload the computation of the complex PID algorithms needed to
direct their operation.

Because of the importance of motor control across such a broad swath of
embedded applications Embedded.com tries to provide timely and detailed
coverageof motor control application development in the form
of design articles, webinars and technical white papers. Some recent Embedded.com
articles I can recommend as Editor's Top Picks include: